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Boom town   /bum taʊn/   Listen
Boom town

noun
1.
A town enjoying sudden prosperity.





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"Boom town" Quotes from Famous Books



... the back country, about fifty miles from everywhere, I imagine. It is a boom town; that is to say, they have found gold there in paying quantities, and so it will grow like a mushroom until the gold gives out, and then, unless they come across anything else of value, it will fizzle out as rapidly as it sprang to life. It is a little way we have of doing things in this part ...
— The Adventurous Seven - Their Hazardous Undertaking • Bessie Marchant
... and they begin to talk over the details of this new bungalow boom town that's to be ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford


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